Yeah, that makes sense. Wasn’t Reagan the architect of the War on Drugs? Jay-Z makes no secret of the fact that he was a successful drug dealer before becoming a rapper, and taken in this light, it seems quite reasonable that ‘Reagan [geting] Manhattan to blow’ is a reference to coke prices shooting up as a result of a crackdown on drugs.
I didn’t flame Dogface. I called the post for what it was. It was entirely free of rational content, consisting of a blast at unnamed celebrities who want to deprive “commoners… [of their] freedom of speech.” His post was, as I said, concerned only with strawmen. My description was not a personal attack, and wasn’t a flame.
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[list=A][li]Yeah, it’s the audiences.[/li][li]It’s also racism, in that the mainstream media doesn’t take black artists seriously enough to care *what * they’re saying.[/list][/li][/QUOTE]
The media are paying attention, and they are taking them seriously: Remember the Ice-T “cop killer” controversy? Sister Souljah and her statement, “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” Michael Jackson and the lyrics, “Jew me, Sue me” and “Kick me, Kike me”?